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Bushie writes Open Letter to Obama, encourages Obama to be even more...
The caving is by design, and so is the wingnut slide further to the right of anything that makes sense. Alright, so the letter is not as blunt as I am. But, that’s how this reads to me. To appear in...
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An Obituary for New Deal Liberalism
If you haven’t read William Grieder’s powerful piece ‘The End of New Deal Liberalism’ at The Nation, you really should. Let me give you a taste. In these terms, the administration of Barack Obama has...
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About 99 percent of us have that sinking feeling
You know me and my wonky graphs. You also know I blog a lot about rising income inequality and that I think it’s a huge problem. So, this MOJO Power graph and the article it came with piqued my...
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On Wisconsin! (Breaking News)
Wisconsin Fights Back! Public employees, largely teachers and many of their students, have been protesting in Madison for three days, flooding the Capitol building with people and signage. Many...
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Right off a Cliff
Where are mainstream Republicans these days? What has happened to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower? Prior to the Reagan years, Republican women were front and center in volunteering...
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They ALL Suck
We have gone through the Mirror to a new perverse American Wonderland. The true lessons from the last two elections have been pretty clear. Voting for “throwing the bums out” just brings worse bums...
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Fiscal Jabberwocky
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!" It’s not often I get to post pictures of mythical beasts for a few days in a row but here I go again. Plus, I’ve gotten...
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In the Land of White Ribbons
First we had the Arab Spring then the European Summer. The American Autumn manifested itself in the Occupy Wall St. Movement. Welcome the Russian Winter. Saturday nearly 35,000 young, mostly...
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Tuesday Reads: Wisconsin Recall Madness!
Good Morning!! Today is the day of reckoning for Wisconsin. Voters will go to the polls today to decide the fate of Governor Scott Walker and five other Wisconsin Republicans: the Lieutenant Governor...
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Wednesday: Banjoville, Georgia. A microcosm of Trump Nation.
Good Afternoon This little section of delight in the North Georgia Mountains…I’ve spoken before of the cross-section of folks who live and breed in the town of Banjoville. Simple kinds of folk, why the...
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